Opa-locka redux

I just read the April 24 article Opa-locka — city for sale and chuckled at the quote of former Vice Mayor Steven Barrett: “I didn’t know it was this bad; this city is run like the mob.”

Had he been a regular reader of the Herald as have I for the past 40-something years, he would have recalled headlines such as this one. In Opa-locka they are more than common as citizens here have seen their fair share of corrupt, selfish, greedy lawmakers both on the city and county level. It’s pretty clear to me that it is always going to be that way.

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Regarding the March 18 article, “One small home is now surrounded by a giant construction zone.” We are aware of the situation regarding the residence at 2915 Coconut Grove Drive. This is a condition that has been ongoing for more than a decade and that, unfortunately, we inherited from the previous two developers that were working on the site since the early 2000s, prior to our interest in it.